designer-skills

Facilitate structured design critiques with clear feedback frameworks and actionable outcomes.

Identify, categorize, and prioritize accumulated design inconsistencies and structural problems across a product.

Communicate design's contribution to business and user outcomes in terms that resonate with stakeholders.

Create QA checklists for verifying design implementation accuracy.

Establish design review gates with criteria, checklists, and approval workflows.

Plan and facilitate design sprints from challenge framing through prototype testing.

Create developer handoff specifications with measurements, behaviors, assets, and edge cases.

Design team workflows covering task management, collaboration rituals, and tooling.

Define version control strategies for design files, components, and libraries.

Organize qualitative research data into an affinity diagram with themes, clusters, and insight statements. Use when synthesizing large amounts of qualitative data from interviews, observations, or surveys.

Analyze card sorting results to inform information architecture and navigation structure. Use after conducting open or closed card sort studies.

Design a diary study plan with prompts, duration, participant criteria, and analysis framework. Use when you need to understand user behavior over time in natural contexts.

Build a 4-quadrant empathy map (Says, Thinks, Does, Feels) to synthesize user research into actionable insights. Use when you need to quickly capture and share user understanding across the team.

Create a structured user interview script with warm-up, core exploration, and wrap-up sections. Use when preparing for user research interviews to ensure consistent, insightful conversations.

Map user Jobs-to-Be-Done with functional, emotional, and social dimensions plus outcome expectations. Use when reframing product decisions around user motivations rather than features.

Create an end-to-end user journey map with stages, touchpoints, emotions, pain points, and opportunity areas. Use when mapping the full user experience for a product, feature, or service.

Build and maintain a research repository that makes findings findable, reusable, and cumulative across the organization.

Summarize a user interview transcript into structured insights with key themes, quotes, and action items. Use after conducting user interviews to extract and share findings efficiently.

Design surveys that collect reliable, unbiased quantitative data to validate hypotheses and measure user attitudes at scale.

Design a usability test plan with tasks, success metrics, participant criteria, and facilitation guide. Use when planning moderated or unmoderated usability testing sessions.

Create refined user personas from research data with demographics, goals, frustrations, and behavioral patterns. Use when synthesizing user research into actionable persona profiles for design decisions.

Conduct a comprehensive accessibility audit against WCAG guidelines with severity ratings and remediation steps.

Write a detailed component specification including props, states, variants, accessibility requirements, and usage guidelines.

Define how a design system evolves — contribution models, versioning, change management, and deprecation.